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spoken falsely ! The Indians and traders, who have lived many 
years in the country, have never seen a winter like this. Many 
people have frozen their feet, so that for weeks they have been 
unable to walk. The general hilarity of the young people has not, 
however, been prevented by it. Sicoxie’s dwelling has been open 
to visitors from Lawrence, and an occasional party, of a winter’s 
evening, has shared the hospitalities of his house. 
The Delawares are daily in our streets, and, with their gay dress, 
half-civilized, retaining always the Indian blanket, add a pleasant 
variety. Other tribes, less civilized, driven by the cold to winter 
near a settlement, have pitched their tents on the further bank of 
the Kansas. They also buy their provisions here, and pack them 
on ponies in bags. The poor little human, too, is encased in a red 
flannel bag, and carried on the back of the mothers. 
People are now getting out ice for the nest summer’s heat. 
Several hundred tons are already cut. Those who work at it 
look oddly with their dress, half Indian, adopting blankets, leggins, 
and moccasins, as very conducive to comfort, while gloves, mittens 
and neck comforters, are the relics of a former civilization. As 
the party starts off, they might be mistaken for voyagers to the 
polar regions. 
There was a wedding, yesterday, of rather novel character. 
Early in the autumn a man of some forty-five years of age came 
to Lawrence. A few more weeks passed, and sickness came to 
him, then death. He left a widow, over whose head scarcely 
eighteen summers had flown, to whom he was married just before 
coming here. Yesterday a second marriage was contracted. How 
full of change is life, and how in such a case as this the affairs of 
life jostle each other ! 
T. came up from town this afternoon saying, “ Lawrence is to 
be attacked on the morrow! 55 The foundation of this present 
rumor rests upon the conversation of a pro-slavery resident near 
Lawrence, and a stranger, which was overheard by one of our citi¬ 
zens. T. brought up quite a quantity of lead, and busied himself 
a while running bullets. 
We are much amused by the eastern newspaper accounts of the 
Kansas war, especially the part taken in it by the ladies. One 
